Not long after last summer’s extreme drought and record heat wave, the rain came down in buckets in early August. The rainfall total for two days was 11 inches, most of which fell within a very short time, causing many areas to flood.

Whether you love him or hate him, you have to admire how U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss threw the state’s political community into an uproar with last week’s announcement that he won’t run again in 2014.

Chambliss made all the necessary remarks about how “frustration” with the dysfunctional Senate caused him to step down after 20 years in Congress. In the end, it comes down to this: he did not want his political career to finish with a defeat in a GOP primary.

You could safely say that the past two years were probably not the best years of Casey Cagle’s life.

The lieutenant governor spent most of the 2011 and 2012 legislative sessions in a state of limbo after a rebellious faction of Republican senators passed new rules that stripped Cagle of his powers to appoint committees and run the administrative affairs of the state Senate.

There’s been a lot of speculation about the smaller crowd expected for this year’s inauguration – and now we know why. The president seems to be disinviting all the Christians!

The purging started with Pastor Louie Giglio, who had been scheduled to offer the benediction until homosexual activists dug up a 20-year-old sermon and were shocked to find the Christian minister preaching a Christian message on sexuality.

Every time there is a serious incident involving a motorist and a bicycle rider, there is a resulting backlash against cyclists in general. While acknowledging that bike riders indeed have a legal right to the road, many question the notion, if not the sanity, of any rider who exercises that right.

One of the revelations that surfaced from the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was that the deranged gunman, Adam Lanza, carried hundreds of rounds of ammunition, enough to kill all 450 children in the school.

Just prior to the election, battery-maker A123 Systems filed for bankruptcy. As the recipient of $249 million in federal money, the Massachusetts-based company represents just the latest in a long line of troubled taxpayer-enabled green ventures – some 34 companies and $7.5 billion to date.

How little different this is from Houston-based Enron’s forays into wind and solar in the 1990s, which even with federal subsidies were never profitable.